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This is worth reading for the line "For some reason difficult to divine the radioactive ATM card did not catch on." alone.

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Oh, I don't know. I quite like radioactivity. My Dad (RAF bomber pilot) had a pilots watch with radium luminous dials. I always fancied getting it after his death, about 12 years ago, but nobody could find it - my brothers denied all knowledge, and I have absolutely no reason to doubt them. So it must be somewhere irradiating the roaches that will become our inevitable successors.

There are still contemporary watches that use radioactive isotopes like tritium for illumination. I’ve always wanted a watch with always-on lume.

Here is a good example, the Marathon GSAR. You can see the radioactive symbol on the dial.

https://www.marathonwatch.com/products/arctic-edition-large-...

Oh, I entirely agree. There are cool ways that radioactivity can be used entirely safely.

But I also understand that a lot of people don't understand -- so I see why even entirely safe uses of radioactivity are concerning to the public, even though they shouldn't be.

Nor Niven's "Yet Another Modest Proposal: The Roentgen Standard" - make coins out of radioactive waste. (https://www.larryniven.net/?q=yet-another-modest-proposal-th... albeit with an SSL certificate error.)

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